Are the Midterms for Sale? (with Theodore Schleifer, Kareem Crayton & Dan Weiner)
We are weeks away from a consequential midterm election, which will set the course for the president’s final two years in office and beyond. Yet we have no way of knowing is who exactly is spending bi...
23 Sep 41min
How to Save the Vote (with Kareem Crayton and Sean Morales-Doyle)
The Trump administration has been leading an unprecedented campaign to undermine Americans’ right to vote. Luckily, his legislative attempts and executive orders have been halted by Congress and the c...
17 Sep 29min
The Battle for American Identity (with Ben Rhodes)
Are we a country based on ideals, on the American creed set out in our founding documents? Or are we a nation of blood and soil, as Vice President JD Vance has argued? Both these strains run throughou...
2 Sep 44min
Clearing the Confusion on the Supreme Court and Mail Voting
This week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on Donald Trump’s executive order on mail voting. Headlines suggested that the justices had given Trump a green light. What did the Supreme Court actually ...
26 Aug 7min
How will AI affect the midterms? (with Larry Norden and Abdi Ahmed)
We’re back! After a summer hiatus, the podcast returns to discuss a major new study by the Brennan Center on how artificial intelligence can affect the upcoming election. A team of technology experts ...
13 Aug 32min
Trump Ramps Up Election Meddling (with Larry Norden and Wendy Weiser)
We’re about 110 days out from the midterms, and the threats to our elections are mounting. This week alone, President Trump fired all remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, the feder...
15 Jul 33min
Bringing Power Back to the People (with Maya Wiley)
This week, Michael is joined by Maya Wiley, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, for a wide-ranging conversation on the power of coalition building in a moment of ...
9 Jul 48min
